Now

What am I doing right now? That’s the point of a now page.

Com­mu­ni­ty:

• I was elect­ed to be the Demo­c­ra­t­ic vot­er reg­is­trar in War­ren, CT in the Novem­ber 2024 elec­tion. I passed my cer­ti­fi­ca­tion exam in Feb­ru­ary.

Work:

• I cur­rent­ly main­tain sev­er­al Craft CMS sites and am look­ing to add anoth­er one or two to my plate. If you have a Craft CMS site that needs a Craft pro’s atten­tion, don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact me.
• I launched a Craft CMS plu­g­in, Bespo­ken. The plu­g­in cre­ates high-qual­i­ty audio nar­ra­tion for Craft CMS sites using the AI from Eleven­Labs. Improv­ing your site’s acces­si­bil­i­ty has nev­er been eas­i­er. In the time since its launch, I’ve sold exact­ly no copies! It’s a good plu­g­in, IMO, but I don’t think there is a com­meri­cial mar­ket for it with­in the Craft ecosys­tem. Dang!
• I’ve been work­ing on client project where my task was to opti­mize the site’s speed, updat­ing the build sys­tem and deploy­ment process. That sounds geeky, but I have real­ly enjoyed it.
• I’ve got a new, small Gist to share. It’s a bash script that I run night­ly on this site to warm the cache and to serv­er pages as fast as pos­si­ble. https://​gist​.github​.com/​j​o​h​n​f​m​o​r​t​o​n​/​d​f​5​7​4​5​d​9​9​7​0​5​7​4​0​2​4​9​1​e​2​5​b​3​7​e​3​3043e The script also shows me which pages are the slow­est load­ing so that I can know what issues to address.
• I recent­ly reworked how the col­or schemes on this site work. There used to be 7 pre­de­ter­mined col­or schemes. I’ve changed that so that there is a new col­or scheme cre­at­ed for each day. This could have fall­en under the Hob­by sec­tion below.

Hob­bies:

• I’ve been doing some new work on my gen­er­a­tive art hob­by project, https://​github​.com/​j​o​h​n​f​m​o​r​t​o​n​/​p​5​j​s​-​s​v​g​-​s​t​arter. It now has its own Github Pages demo that is updat­ed each time I push to the main branch on GitHub. Check it out here. One cool thing it does now is that it ​“remem­bers” the draw­ing you’ve cre­at­ed using URL para­me­ters. That link is an exam­ple of one draw­ing I par­tic­u­lar­ly like.
• I’ve also been play­ing Dia­blo IV on PlaySta­tion. This bul­let point on my ​“now” page is unlike­ly to change any­time soon. Dia­blo IV is my go-to game.

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